Connected products involves linking your external ecommerce products (products from your website) to internal GS products. This way, the footprint and supply chain of the GS product gets applied to the external product as well and can be used in impact/footprint calculation and offset calculation.
The connected products functionality is divided into 3 tabs - unlinked, linked and archived tab.
Unlinked tab
The unlinked tab consists of your external e-commerce products that have not yet been linked to an internal GS product. If you have enabled product sync for your store, these ecommerce products are automatically synced into the GS system in this unlinked tab. You can also add an ecommerce product manually into the unlinked tab if you wish to.
The unlinked tab list screen consists of:
Basic information: Product name, SKU, Subcategory of the external ecommerce product. This information is pulled automatically from your website if product sync is enabled.
Store name: The store name your external ecommerce product belongs to.
Custom attributes: Any characteristics that can be associated with your product such as size, colour, weight, material etc.
Adding an ecommerce product manually:
Basic information: Name, Subcategory, SKU, Style, Ecommerce ID, Store name
Language: English is the default language of the product. If your product is available in other languages, you can enter the language and the name of the product in that specific language
Custom attributes: Any characteristics that can be associated with your product such as size, colour, weight, material etc along with its value
Tag: Any tag to identify your product
Description: Description of your product
Actions:
Link product: Your external ecommerce products can be linked to an internal GS product while adding a product manually or from the list screen. Once a product has been linked, it will move out of the unlinked tab and live in the linked tab.
Edit: You can only edit details of products that have been manually added into the system. You cannot edit synced products
Archive: You can choose to archive a product. Archiving a product moves the product to the archived tab
Delete: Synced products cannot be deleted. Only manually added products can be deleted
Linked tab
These are external products that have been linked to internal GS products live in the linked tab.
The linked tab list screen consists of:
External product information: External product name, ID, style, store name your external product belongs to
Internal GS product information: GS product name, ID, SKU, Style
Status of linkage: The status of linking can be active or inactive. If the linkage is made inactive, the external product will not be linked to the internal product and the sustainability data for this product will not reflect.
Actions:
Edit: Editing allows you to replace the linked product with an alternate product. The external product information cannot be edited.
Unlink: Unlink removes the linkage between the external and internal product. The external ecommerce product will move back to the unlinked tab
Active/inactive status: Change the status of linkage from active to inactive and vice versa.
Archived tab
The archived tab consists of unlinked external ecommerce products that you chose to archive (hide) for any reason. These products can be moved back to the unlinked tab with the “move to unlink option”.
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